Bagging Free Stuff for Summer

Marshall Heyman Surveys Party Swag

BRIDGEHAMPTON—It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man or a woman in possession of a good fortune still enjoys the buzz of the occasional free item.

This was probably as much the case during the time of Jane Austen as it is these days in the Hamptons, where few summer denizens blink at the price of a night's stay at the Topping Rose House, let alone a helicopter ride to beat the traffic.